[newbie] Cable Modems
Dear All, My Cox Cable internet provider has just notified us that we need to change our modems to DOCSIS cable modems. The good news is I no longer will have to rent a modem from them. I can own my own and get a $10 per month reduction on my cable fee. That is fine with me however, I want to make sure I get one that will work with my LM8.1 and with my SMZ ethernet card which is a ne2000 clone and has the realtk 8129 chip I believe. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated here. Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems
Marcia wrote: Dear All, My Cox Cable internet provider has just notified us that we need to change our modems to DOCSIS cable modems. The good news is I no longer will have to rent a modem from them. I can own my own and get a $10 per month reduction on my cable fee. That is fine with me however, I want to make sure I get one that will work with my LM8.1 and with my SMZ ethernet card which is a ne2000 clone and has the realtk 8129 chip I believe. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated here. Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I cannot find any external cable modems that will not work with that setup. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
Thanks Jon. I've picked up a network card and I'll supposedly get a self-install kit on Friday from the local cable provider. Sounds pretty painless. Where's Ashland? (MA?) Terry Smith Jon Dowd wrote: I am connected to the internet via a cable modem on the Ashland Fiber Network This little town has provided its citizens the most extraordinary opportunity. 3-5Mbs or T-3 equivilency (612MB iso file in 48 minutes!) for (eat your hearts out) $24.95 a month ! This network (like most cable systems) gives an IP via DHCP. So during the Mandrake-Linux installation my cheap NIC (RTL8139) was automatically detected and I followed the defaults for the network installation except I clicked on the star next to (bootp - dhcp) and that was all the configuring I needed to do. All the gateway, IP address, host name, DNS stuff was taken care of by the IPS using DHCP (my guess is that most of them do it the same). I was on line at the first boot and still am. If the installer will give you enough cat5 to reach from wherever he leaves the cable modem to your NIC, you can probably shoo him away and boot your computer and be online ! Jon Dowd - Original Message - From: Harry Ablejoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs Hi Newbie I use cable modem with @ home cable you need a network card I would opt for 3 com pci card. You need to get the settings from installer Network address IP ADDRESS SUBNET MASK GATEWAY/ROUTER HOST: DNS/ NAME SERVER 1 DNS NAME SERVER 2 DOMAIN THIS WILL BE MAIL SERVER LM 8.1 WILL FIND YOUR NETWORK CARD AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MUCH TROUBLE SETTING UP YOUR NETWORK. Good Luck and sorry for the caps. Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.293 / Virus Database: 158 - Release Date: 10/29/2001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
CAn someone tell me how to get off this mailing lsit?? --- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jon. I've picked up a network card and I'll supposedly get a self-install kit on Friday from the local cable provider. Sounds pretty painless. Where's Ashland? (MA?) Terry Smith Jon Dowd wrote: I am connected to the internet via a cable modem on the Ashland Fiber Network This little town has provided its citizens the most extraordinary opportunity. 3-5Mbs or T-3 equivilency (612MB iso file in 48 minutes!) for (eat your hearts out) $24.95 a month ! This network (like most cable systems) gives an IP via DHCP. So during the Mandrake-Linux installation my cheap NIC (RTL8139) was automatically detected and I followed the defaults for the network installation except I clicked on the star next to (bootp - dhcp) and that was all the configuring I needed to do. All the gateway, IP address, host name, DNS stuff was taken care of by the IPS using DHCP (my guess is that most of them do it the same). I was on line at the first boot and still am. If the installer will give you enough cat5 to reach from wherever he leaves the cable modem to your NIC, you can probably shoo him away and boot your computer and be online ! Jon Dowd - Original Message - From: Harry Ablejoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs Hi Newbie I use cable modem with @ home cable you need a network card I would opt for 3 com pci card. You need to get the settings from installer Network address IP ADDRESS SUBNET MASK GATEWAY/ROUTER HOST: DNS/ NAME SERVER 1 DNS NAME SERVER 2 DOMAIN THIS WILL BE MAIL SERVER LM 8.1 WILL FIND YOUR NETWORK CARD AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MUCH TROUBLE SETTING UP YOUR NETWORK. Good Luck and sorry for the caps. Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.293 / Virus Database: 158 - Release Date: 10/29/2001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Derek. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
I'm new to Mandrake myself. I currently have ADSL running through a linksys router and Mandrake had no problem detecting my setup. As for connecting straight into your linux box, I can't foresee any problems but then again your setup is slightly different than mine. --- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, I'm one of the new newbies on the listhave been playing with my linux box at home for a few months (currently running LM 8.1 via the PowerPack). Before I lay down some cash I wanted to ask the list some questions. I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. The plando their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. So a couple of questions.. Is it reasonable to expect LM to detect the cable modem (I'm assuming that lots of folks on this list are using cable hookups)? Any pitfalls/traps? I need to buy a NIC before I hook up their modem. Will any network card be OK? TIA. Terry Smith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Eric Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chicopee, MA __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 17:23, you wrote: Hi gang, I'm one of the new newbies on the listhave been playing with my linux box at home for a few months (currently running LM 8.1 via the PowerPack). Before I lay down some cash I wanted to ask the list some questions. I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. The plando their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. So a couple of questions.. Don't ask, mdk and cable connections hop along together as if it's always been that way:) When they came to connect my cable, a guy came along (he was included in the intiial price) to connect my PC. When I told him I had Linux he turned a little pale (and started searching my contract including all the small type clauses)so I booted m$windows for him. Which was terrible, cause if ever m$ gives me trouble I just turn the machine off and reboot (auto) into linux, and of course forget about scandisk and such after a few days:) It left the poor man horrendous so I offered him a cup of coffee, started linuxconf (that was mdk 7.2) and presto everything was hunkydory. Afterwards the m$ configuration took about 1/2 an hour :( The man left without saying 'thank you for the coffee' but I'll survive:) greetings Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
Sounds Typical! My ISP couldn't even ping my home network, and that really shocked him. Now I'm going around setting up firewalls for most of his corporate clients! Life is good! Long Live Linux and cablemodems! Lanman On Tuesday 20 November 2001 05:45 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2001 17:23, you wrote: Hi gang, I'm one of the new newbies on the listhave been playing with my linux box at home for a few months (currently running LM 8.1 via the PowerPack). Before I lay down some cash I wanted to ask the list some questions. I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. The plando their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. So a couple of questions.. Don't ask, mdk and cable connections hop along together as if it's always been that way:) When they came to connect my cable, a guy came along (he was included in the intiial price) to connect my PC. When I told him I had Linux he turned a little pale (and started searching my contract including all the small type clauses)so I booted m$windows for him. Which was terrible, cause if ever m$ gives me trouble I just turn the machine off and reboot (auto) into linux, and of course forget about scandisk and such after a few days:) It left the poor man horrendous so I offered him a cup of coffee, started linuxconf (that was mdk 7.2) and presto everything was hunkydory. Afterwards the m$ configuration took about 1/2 an hour :( The man left without saying 'thank you for the coffee' but I'll survive:) greetings Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:23 am, you wrote: Is it reasonable to expect LM to detect the cable modem (I'm assuming that lots of folks on this list are using cable hookups)? Any pitfalls/traps? I'm using LM 8.0 on a Mac G4, and my cable connection was detected no problem. I had to do a little editing to a network script to add my client ID, but everything is working great at this point. --mapdock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
Hi Newbie I use cable modem with @ home cable you need a network card I would opt for 3 com pci card. You need to get the settings from installer Network address IP ADDRESS SUBNET MASK GATEWAY/ROUTER HOST: DNS/ NAME SERVER 1 DNS NAME SERVER 2 DOMAIN THIS WILL BE MAIL SERVER LM 8.1 WILL FIND YOUR NETWORK CARD AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MUCH TROUBLE SETTING UP YOUR NETWORK. Good Luck and sorry for the caps. Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
I am connected to the internet via a cable modem on the Ashland Fiber Network This little town has provided its citizens the most extraordinary opportunity. 3-5Mbs or T-3 equivilency (612MB iso file in 48 minutes!) for (eat your hearts out) $24.95 a month ! This network (like most cable systems) gives an IP via DHCP. So during the Mandrake-Linux installation my cheap NIC (RTL8139) was automatically detected and I followed the defaults for the network installation except I clicked on the star next to (bootp - dhcp) and that was all the configuring I needed to do. All the gateway, IP address, host name, DNS stuff was taken care of by the IPS using DHCP (my guess is that most of them do it the same). I was on line at the first boot and still am. If the installer will give you enough cat5 to reach from wherever he leaves the cable modem to your NIC, you can probably shoo him away and boot your computer and be online ! Jon Dowd - Original Message - From: Harry Ablejoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs Hi Newbie I use cable modem with @ home cable you need a network card I would opt for 3 com pci card. You need to get the settings from installer Network address IP ADDRESS SUBNET MASK GATEWAY/ROUTER HOST: DNS/ NAME SERVER 1 DNS NAME SERVER 2 DOMAIN THIS WILL BE MAIL SERVER LM 8.1 WILL FIND YOUR NETWORK CARD AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MUCH TROUBLE SETTING UP YOUR NETWORK. Good Luck and sorry for the caps. Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.293 / Virus Database: 158 - Release Date: 10/29/2001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:23, you wrote: Hi gang, Hello! I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. I am not sure how a cable modem works, but in case it has an ethernet plug, you can certainly connect to it by DHCP. It works for my ADSL connection, and config has been very easy (open the network config, choose configure, click dhcp, say yes when it says you have to restart networking, and you're on line. I can now enjoy downloading a Mandrake ISO within 12 minutes vs impossible with a modem. The plando their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. In case of DHCP, there is nothing to install (except a network if you don't have one. So a couple of questions.. Is it reasonable to expect LM to detect the cable modem (I'm assuming that lots of folks on this list are using cable hookups)? Any pitfalls/traps? In case you connect by DHCP, it will probably not detect the modem itself (I don't remember having seen my modem), but it will detect the network board which is all what you need. I need to buy a NIC before I hook up their modem. Will any network card be OK? Except if you use a very exotic network board, I would say there are 99% chances it will work. You didn't make your board yourself, did you? :-) I bought the cheapest NIC for 750 yen (about 6.5 $), and it works. TIA. Terry Smith Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]Cable Modems correction
Retracing my steps, that was a 3com 100mbps NIC that automagically installed and not the Linksys Gigabit. Sorry. I hope I didn't mess anyone up.:( It is still faster! The cable internet seems to come up automagically on LM7.2,8.0,8.1 if the NIC comes up.I have not tried it without the router in there, though. I started with LM7.2 because I read all the bad experiences on this list with 8, and I had purchased the 7.2 set of 8cd's. 7.2 cable net worked great the first time! Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.0 from the iso disk while not on cable. When I had cable, I ran the Mandrake Control Center from the icon on the KDE desktop and ran the Network and Internet autoconfig. This eventually worked after playing with it for half an hour, or so. Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.1 while I was on cable. It came up and worked properly with no changes. Sorry again. Jim Lynch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems
I can't get Optus@Home running with DrakConf either. The only solution was to do pretty much the same thing as you have done. I run the line dhcpcd -d -n -h hostname eth0 at the command line as root (it doesn't work as user). The -d creates a small log file that can be used for troubleshooting (it doesn't generate much output, so you won't be overwhelmed with data) and the -n renews the connection if dhcpcd is already running. That way I can put the line as a cron job to run every five minutes to prevent connection dropouts, which occur from time to time on the Optus network. Also, put the line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file so that you automatically connect at bootup. On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:55, David Grubb wrote: Hi all, Loaded 7.2 onto the box at home last night, and apart from one glitch, had no problems. The one glitch is this: Have cable internet connection through Optus@Home (the Aussie arm of Excite@Home) which I cannot get to work via DrakConf - after stuffing around in drakconf for a couple of hours configuring the network card (realtek chipset using ne-2k driver module) I gave up trying to automagically configure the internet connection in drakconf - went to the shell and ran dhcpcd -h myhostname eth0 and all was up and working. My question is: can someone tell me a simple, straightforward method of connecting to the internet via cable modem at system startup? All the FAQs, NHFs, HOW-TOs etc I've found all suggest different methods, and none of these work Cheers Dave -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems
all you gotz to do is have eth0 start on startup. I think the option to do so is in linuxconf, if not its loaded from /etc/rc.d peace - Original Message - From: David Grubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modems Hi all, Loaded 7.2 onto the box at home last night, and apart from one glitch, had no problems. The one glitch is this: Have cable internet connection through Optus@Home (the Aussie arm of Excite@Home) which I cannot get to work via DrakConf - after stuffing around in drakconf for a couple of hours configuring the network card (realtek chipset using ne-2k driver module) I gave up trying to automagically configure the internet connection in drakconf - went to the shell and ran dhcpcd -h myhostname eth0 and all was up and working. My question is: can someone tell me a simple, straightforward method of connecting to the internet via cable modem at system startup? All the FAQs, NHFs, HOW-TOs etc I've found all suggest different methods, and none of these work Cheers Dave
[newbie] Cable Modems
Hi all, Loaded 7.2 onto the box at home last night, and apart from one glitch, had no problems. The one glitch is this: Have cable internet connection through Optus@Home (the Aussie arm of Excite@Home) which I cannot get to work via DrakConf - after stuffing around in drakconf for a couple of hours configuring the network card (realtek chipset using ne-2k driver module) I gave up trying to automagically configure the internet connection in drakconf - went to the shell and ran dhcpcd -h myhostname eth0 and all was up and working. My question is: can someone tell me a simple, straightforward method of connecting to the internet via cable modem at system startup? All the FAQs, NHFs, HOW-TOs etc I've found all suggest different methods, and none of these work Cheers Dave
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems and NIC cards
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: which brand of cable is it? I have ATT and they do not use DHCP. Its static IP's. Your info should be on the receipt the installation guy gave you. Once again, these directions are (probably) only good for ATT @home service. Hi, I have ATT @home service and the only way I could get it to work was to invoke dhcpcd. Entering in the IP addresses and gateway did not do it for me. I wound up removing all of the information for eth0 and entering "dhcpcd -h myhostname" and it worked beatifully. If you read the cable modem HOWTO I think it is different for different areas of the country. I haven't a clue why that is so. The trick for me was that the @home server needed me to tell it my host name. I could ping their server but couldn't go any farther before doing that. Hugo Aloha, Oregon
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems and NIC cards
which brand of cable is it? I have ATT and they do not use DHCP. Its static IP's. Your info should be on the receipt the installation guy gave you. Once again, these directions are (probably) only good for ATT @home service. go to the network configuration tab in DrakConf Enter your computer name in the Host name section. mine is d642855-a go to the next tab and make sure that your NIC has an appropriate module chosen for it. Enter your IP address and sub net mask. click quit. choose the tab called DNS something or other. enter your 2 DNS addresses in the fields and for the "Search domain" filed enter the .sttln1.home.com part of your computers full (d642855-a.sttln1.home.com) name. click quit and go to gateway. enter your gateway IP address and click quit. it will ask you to apply changes once you try to close the last box. Say ok but it won't work. You have to open linuxconf and restart the network service in there. It should work just fine now. Good luck! Dacia --- "Paul K. Rooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed LM 7.1 and I am trying to get my nic card and cable modem to work. I have searched and tried many of the suggestions for the past two days to no avail. If anyone has configured an ethernet card for a LAN and cable modem PLEASE tell me how to do it. My system recognizes my card but I cannot seem to get the DHCP to work. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Paul Las Vegas __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Cable modems
I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!!
Re: [newbie] Cable modems
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!! yes, without a doubt Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Cable modems
Hi Kelly, Please check out the link below. It helped me get my cable modem working. http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html Roman RLU #179293 "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!!
Re: [newbie] cable modems NY /Woodbury
I have Road Runner. WHat I had to do was: a) Make sure I had the latest DHCP modules, etc. b) Download and install the special login software unique to Road Runner for Linux c) Put in my DNS address for my provider. Bingo ! Frank Imbroto wrote: Does anybody have a cable modem connection that works. I am having trouble setting it up and don't even know where to start. Does anybody have advice on how to hook up the modem.
Re: [newbie] cable modems NY /Woodbury
Yes works like a charm, on your cd (or on the ftp mirrors) there is a doc/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem that would be a good starting point. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Frank Imbroto wrote: Does anybody have a cable modem connection that works. I am having trouble setting it up and don't even know where to start. Does anybody have advice on how to hook up the modem.
